The pace of progress qcad makes is simply amazing - just downloaded 3.4.4 and checked selection filtering, great! (just a small glitch: grips are drawn also for entities on hidden layers). However, I started to customize the interface a little to my needs, and with each new version, I have to edit / overwrite files in quite a couple of places.I did not find a setting for a search path, so is there a way to put customized scripts etc. anywhere to give them precedence over the shipped versions?

Thanks for the swift answer - I would never have figured this out myself...My dumb solution was to create a "qcad-current" link to point to the latest version, and a "qcad-custom" directory to hold customized files. Then I edited the include statements in the scripts to point to qcad-current, and edited QCAD3.conf to load the customized scripts instead of the original ones... not sure this would survive an update, though.

But what about other support files, e.g. hatches and linetypes? (btw, where are linetypes defined?) If you added .pat files (many found on internet could not be distributed with qcad) to the patterns folder, it would be nice to not have to repeat this for each release.

PS: I will of course share when I think I got something worthwhile, at the moment I'm just fiddling with .ui files to maximize viewport area a bit (I use a netbook quite often).